Julia Long

Julia Long is a feminist activist and academic. She is active with the London Feminist Network, co-organising the annual national UK ‘Reclaim the Night’ march, and with OBJECT, a UK-based group which campaigns against sex object culture. She has recently completed a PhD on the re-emergence of feminist anti-pornography activism in the UK. Julia’s professional background includes sixth form teaching, managing an HIV / AIDS support charity and working as a gender equality policy adviser in central and local government.

Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?

Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture. Julia Long argues that approaches to stop such violence will fail unless they also address issues of endemic cultural misogyny

By Julia Long

/ 30 Nov 2010